Open Immersion, a lab exploring immersive VR storytelling, was developed by CFC Media Lab and the National Film Board of Canada with funding from JustFilms | Ford Foundation. Its aim: to reclaim the VR space for artists.

The First Virtual Reality Creative Doc Lab produced by the CFC Media Lab, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and JustFilms | Ford Foundation
October 11-19, 2016 | TorontoIn this Endgadget interview written in January 2015 Nonny de la Peña, the "godmother of virtual reality," spea...

...and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st century arts infrastructure that supports it.For 80 years the Ford Foundation has worked with courageous people...

Sarah Polley

"I began with a very vague, unwieldy idea which gradually became a film ready to shoot as it was shaped by the mentors and most importantly the other directors"